Trail View

The Trail View shows all paths going up from the current note. In this example, we see a binary tree going up two levels from the current note. The Mermaid graph below visualises the same data:

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Read the Trail View from right-to-left. The right-most notes are the immediate neighbours of the current note. As you move further left, the notes get further away from the current note. Similar to how the File Explorer shows your current folder path from highest-to-lowest:

Settings

Change under Settings > Views > Page > Trail

• Enable: Show/hide the Trail View at the top of your notes.
• Format: Show the results in a path or grid format (the underlying data is still the same).
• Path Selection: Show all paths, or only the shortest/longest path.
• Default Depth: A maximum depth of the paths. If the paths go longer than the max depth, they are sliced off. Defaults to 999 (effectively unlimited).
• Field Groups: Choose which field groups are shown. By default, the ups group is shown.
• Merge Fields: Traverse each field separately, or all together.
• Show Controls: Show/hide a set of controls on top of the Trail View to change the format, depth, and path selection interactively.
• No Path Message: The message to show when there are no paths to display. Leave blank to hide the Trail View entirely when there is no path.
• Note Display Options: Three toggles — Folder, Extension, and Alias — that control how note links are displayed in the trail.